A Study On Danaher Supplier Development

To achieve new competitive advantages,companies are outsourcing non-core business from professional suppliers.As one of the most important parts of supply chain,suppliers are playing more and more vital role in the whole supply chain management,and supplier development becomes one of the issues for modern company.With Danaher as the study object and based on the theories including supply chain management,purchasing management and supplier development,the thesis analyzes the current situation and existing problems of supplier development in Danaher,and proposes counter measures,hoping this can be reference for other companies.The first part of the thesis is the basic theory of purchasing management and supplier development,including purchasing commodity classification,80/20 rule,the meaning,guidelines and process of supplier development.The second part analyzes the current situation of Danaher supplier development and the problems.By analyzing the current situation,it is discovered that the main problems are the supplier development procedure has not been set up and standardized,and certain steps are missing or need improvement.The third part proposes the counter measures.First the supplier development process needs to be set up.Secondly improvements are needed for certain parts of the process,including adding the market environment analysis,commodity evaluation system,trial order,and bettering initial supplier selection,on the spot evaluation and evaluation process.Lastly,it puts forward that reasonable process and scientific evaluation standard are the basis of partner supplier development.